Trigeminal neuralgia treatment massage

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trigeminal-neuralgia

Without the medication I could not live with this pain, it does help but the pain never goes away, and I dread it when I know that I am going to have an attack, nobody seems to know exactly what is what is causing this, I have looked up TrigeminalNeuralgia and I have these symptoms along with other symptoms, can you please tell me if you think that I may have this or a combination of Trigeminal Neuralgia and Hemicrania Continua.
I live in the UK and would really appreciate your advice.

This summer I was overseas and one of the doctors suggested that it might be trigeminalneuralgia. I started taking Tygretol. First, taking even one pill (200 mg) helped. I was really happy though after Tygretol my face feels kind of numb and I have some other side effects. After about a month I had to increase the dosage to two pills as one pill was not working anymore. After another month to three pills. And now to four. This is kind of scary.

With the TrigeminalNeuralgia is is lots of pain for me. It feels like my skin in on fire and shooting pain in on the side of my cheek, up towards the temple and near my jaw. Is this an MS related symptom? I have had this for years, and have always associated it with cold sores in my mouth. I have had the pain, and not the cold sore, but always thought somehow it was part of that virus.

I have a 14mm chiari , I've had problems with tiredness, tinnitus, balance, gait, headaches etc since childhood, misdiagnosed with everything from ME to meniers.
For almost 2 years I have had typical and atypical trigeminalneuralgia, it affects all 3 branches of the nerve.
My MRI picked up the chiari and showed the cerebellar artery was touching the trigeminal nerve and probably causing the problem.

I've been diagnosed with Occipital Neuralgia and TrigeminalNeuralgia with Cervicogenic Headaches. I've had the steroid and botox injections, at the base of my skull. I'm on Lyrica, pain med. and zanaflex. I'm scheduled to have a facet nerve root injection in the vertebrae area c3, c4 under gen. anestesia by a pain mgt, Dr., I had a EBG- test today to see if there were any other compressed nerves by three of my bulging discs in my neck. If you live near Houston, tx. My Neurologist, Dr.

I JUST ARRANGED THE ACUPUNCTURIST TO SPEAK HERE AT WORK IN A FEW WEEKS ON WELLNESS AND HAVE THE BROCHURE ON MY DESK HERE - IT LISTS MANY OF THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS AS BENEFITING FROM ACUPUNCTURE THAT ARE RECOGNIZED BY THE NIH -
ANXIETY
CHRONIC FATIGUE
DEPRESSION
DIZZINESS
INCONTINENCE
MIGRAINE
PAIN
TRIGEMINALNEURALGIA
UTI'S
I FIND IT VERY, VERY BENEFICIAL AND WISH I COULD GO MORE OFTEN.

For the past few weeks I have been throwing around ideas as to the best way to respond to this matter. You see a recent article ( Feb.3 , 2009 NY times) titled "Best treatment for TMJ May be Nothing" nearly made me clench my jaw to pieces.
While well written, I found that the author, Ms. Brody, relied heavily on out dated and narrow perspective supplied to her by a small group of dentists.

Although without being able to examine you I can not offer you the specific advice on diagnosis and treatment that you need, but I would try to provide you some relevant information about your health concern.
Yes! This may be Trigeminalneuralgia as you have typical one sided facial pain extending to temple and eye( ophthalmic branch of trigeminal nerve may be involved) and sore gums of the teeth of same side (maxillary branch of 5th nerve).

But the neurosurgeon I consulted said that he wouldn't want to operate on me through MVD because my pain is bilateral and my pain syndrome is not that of trigeminalneuralgia. My pain specialist suggested a sphenopalatine ganglion block (a surgical invasive procedure) but my mum wouldn't hear of it.
I feel a little less pressure when I tilt my head backwards, and can feel the nerves in my nose vibrating more intensely when I massage the back of my head.

For medical treatment of trigeminalneuralgia several types of drugs are tried either singly or in combination. These are anti-epilepsy drugs such as valproate, carbamazepine, lamotrigine, phenytoin, gabapentin, and pregabalin; muscle relaxants such as clonazepam and baclofen; tricyclic antidepressants such as carbamazepine, amitriptyline, and nortriptyline.Sometimes a MRI is done to find out if there is a tumor pressing on the nerve. In this case surgery is the only treatment.

One is a condition called trigeminalneuralgia. This is a type of pain that comes and goes on one side of the face and is severe and sharp when present. When there is no pain, most people are symptom free. It is in the distribution of the trigeminal nerve, hence its name. The pains are usually on the cheek and jaw regions. Triggers can include washing the face, smoking, talking, brushing teeth, etc. The cause is unknown but the thinking is that it is from compression on this nerve.

But the neurosurgeon I consulted said that he wouldn't want to operate on me through MVD because my pain is bilateral and my pain syndrome is not that of trigeminalneuralgia. My pain specialist suggested a sphenopalatine ganglion block (a surgical invasive procedure) but my mum wouldn't hear of it.
I feel a little less pressure when I tilt my head backwards, and can feel the nerves in my nose vibrating more intensely when I massage the back of my head.

Treatment for migraines include drugs that prevent the attack like anti convulsants and drugs which treat an attack like triptans, ergots etc your queries should pertain to all these possible differential diagnoses. Trigeminalneuralgia needs to be considered. If the neurologist and radiologist are suspecting a cerebral aneurysm, they can confirm with cerebral angiography and clipping of the aneurysm could be done. Hope this helps. Take care.

But you can also wear in daytime b/c you are probably unwittingly clenching your jaw which will tense the neck muscles, back etc.
If you have trigeminalneuralgia, I would think your doctor would start you on cymbalta rather than effexor. cymbalta is in the effexor family but cymbalta is typically prescribed for neuralgia pain or diabetic pain as well as depression. It works faster than effexor, like 3 days as opposed to 3 weeks. You might want to ask about that.

most probably you are suffering from trigeminalneuralgia,a condition in which stabbing pain occurs in the lower part of the face n rarely involves the area around the eye n nostril.there may be feeling of abnormal sensation.there l be weakness in the muscles involved in mastication n deviation of jaw towards the site of lesion.it is aggravated by movement of the jaw or yawning,yawning or stimulation of skin around the mouth or interruption of blood supply to the trigeminal neuron.

No treatment for it except some heat if it does swell up and to massage it. Sounds strange, but the gland swelling went down and I was fine. Hep C doc said to watch out for it. But the pain was definitely in my ear and then focused in front of my ear, along my jaw bone.
Good luck on getting a doc to take it seriously. Like I said, my primary thought I was crazy. Hep C can do the most random, crazy things, strange pains, fatigue at crazy times, food cravings, stuff like that.

Hello, my name is Cameron, and I am 31 yrs old. I live in Atlanta and I have been afflicted with Severe Chronic Daily Migraines for the last 6+ years. I wake up with a headache and I go to bed (if I'm lucky) with a headache...except these are not your regular headaches. These are the most excruciatingly painful headaches anyone can imagine.

If it were pain it would be a classic description of a severe and painful condition called TrigeminalNeuralgia. I was taught that some people who will develop full-blown TrigeminalNeuralgia will have a period of months to years beforehand when they just have "odd" sensations in the nerve, such as both of you describe. Here is a discussion of this:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cranial_nerves/trigeminal_neuralgia/manuscript/anatomy.

My 72 year old step mother has chronic progressive MS with onsets of Trigeminal Neurolgia in her left jaw. She was in a nursing home for nine weeks where they positioned her legs bent on either side of her body. As a result, her ham strings have tightened to the point she can no longer straighten her legs. Unbent legs causes excruciating pain in her heels. We have tried many combinations of pillows and apparutuses to try to lift her heels off the bed.

the only thing they think it could (latest line of thinking) is some form of neuralgia. Going now to try massage therapy, and possibly a new drug treatment.
Would be interesting to connect and compare notes...

Sharp pain in the side of face could be due to injury to a nerve or pinched nerve, an infection or a trauma. Hence it could be Trigeminalneuralgia, abscess in tooth, exposed root canal, internal ear infection, maxillary sinusitis, TMJ, migraine, herpes (recurrent) without rash or fibromyalgia localized to face.
I think you should discuss these possibilities with your doctor. It is difficult to comment beyond this without examining.

Treatment for migraines include drugs that prevent the attack like anti convulsants and drugs which treat an attack like triptans, ergots etc your queries should pertain to all these possible differential diagnoses. Trigeminalneuralgia needs to be considered. Hope this helps. Take care.

Depending on the exact location, he could have trigeminalneuralgia, occipital neuralgia, or some other neuralgia or neuritis. He needs to see a neurologist. The ear pain is possibly related to neuralgia as a referred type of pain, or it may be due to an unrelated illness or syndrome. No matter which, his general physician ought to be able to refer him to a good neurologist.
Best of luck!

This can cause that kind of problem as well. Look up on the web the missing link, trigeminalneuralgia and TMJ-TMD. It may be something to rule out, and if not that, see a neurologist, that should be the first place to go, or an ear nose and throat (ENT) specialist. Hope your doctor sends you to them. If not ask him too... Hope this helps...

I posted a message on 7/8/98 regarding the possible trigeminalneuralgia
which affects my right temple. Thank you for answering my post. I have
been working with a chiropractor, who said I probably have TMJ, Fibromyalgia
and/or Myofascial pain syndrome and seemed to dismiss the TN and MS possibilities.
I was referred to a TMJ specialist, who found muscle involvement in my
head, face,etc, but no joint disorder at all.

She did not ask about parasthesias, did not go into detail about the trigeminalneuralgia I ended up with late November, nor had she ever heard of Lhermitte's sign (she ended up googling it while I was there). In the end she went and got the neurologist himself, who asked a few RELEVANT questions, and it was him that said there is a very real chance, and it was him that ordered the MRI scan. Once I've had the scan, I will see him again.

Very strange is, when I wash my hair, my face is swollen there, where are branches of TrigeminalNeuralgia (atypical) and have terrible pains, so must stay in bed on Saturday and Sunday (wash my hair on Saturdays).
If I am in Solarium, I feel very good. Doctors told me long time ago, that all my spine is blocked, from the bottom until upper neck. That means, I need something for Circulation and Muscle Spasm.
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